Sans Soleil (1983)

Original title

Sans soleil

Directed by

Chris Marker

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 267 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker travels to places like Japan and Africa, filming everyday life and cultural events. The images are accompanied by a woman's voice reading letters from the filmmaker, reflecting on memory and how people remember the past.

meditativefragmentedcontemplativepoeticnonlinearatmosphericreflectiveintrospective

What happens

Sans Soleil (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃ sɔlɛj]; "Sunless") is a 1983 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker. It is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. The title Sans Soleil is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky, a brief fragment of which features in the film. Sans Soleil is composed of documentary footage shot by Marker interwoven with stock footage, clips from Japanese movies and shows, and excerpts and stills from other films. In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted Sans Soleil the third best documentary film of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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